This graph sucks. It is engineered to boil the blood of the low information reactionary.

There’s a reason retirees move to other states

It's less than 600k people in an area 40% larger than all of New England. I feel like if it was really an amazing place to live more people would live there.

I’d really like to pay less property tax in CT but the republicans choose that rate in my town.

Haha if you suggest that there are other states to live in that aren’t CT, all hell breaks loose

No shocker here. They will tax and tax .......

They're pretty good for a northern state. did you know there are northern states that have unpaved roads and/or have signs saying "road not maintained in winter?" Can you imagine people in CT putting up with their road not being plowed in the winter?

I’ve been to all those places and they’re not shitholes or 3rd world countries lmao. Life exists outside CT. Go see the country or just be stereotypical nutmegger and assume everywhere else is a completely inferior shithole because you live in the high class society of CT

Are they “taxing the shit out of us” as you so eloquently put it, or do you not know how to manage a budget? I’m guessing it’s the latter.

Wyoming is ruled by the fossil fuel, timber, and cattle industries. Complaining about pollution there is damn near illegal.

I'm not kidding about ruled either. They exercise full control over the state legislature.

This is the third time in 3 days I’ve seen people moronically conflate percentages with total quantity in this sub.

Where tf did our math teachers go?

Whose talking about Portland? We are discussing CT here

Doesn't Alaska have the highest domestic abuse rate per capita? Mississippi highest murder rate?

Pros and cons to every state...

They pay people to live in Alaska.

Dude, lay off the Fox News and go outside.

How stupid you have to be

That's.... not what the graph shows?

Exactly

Yeah, they're taxing the shit out of us, and you call that "doing something right."

Makes sense, look at how great the roads are here! /s

Imagine saying it’s fine around Portland????? But bad everywhere else.

Some things are top or bottom. Correlate this post with https://i.redd.it/9iqfgrunyeja1.png It's not 1-for-1 but there is a stunning amount of overlap.

I'm sure they are beautiful places to see but as far as living?

Alaska is a weird case because it gets oil money. Utah is crazy cult people. Oregon is probably fine around Portland but go inland and it gets bad. Wyoming is....who knows. SC and NM are just straight up shitholes.

There are probably perfectly nice towns in each of those states(if you have the money) but overall they are horrible places to live for various reasons ranging from crime to poor education to inferior hospitals to lack of services and whatever else.

People in this sub constantly complaining about taxes without realizing that we have it pretty good is what gets weird in this sub.

Did you not read the header of the graph? It shows a breakdown of state revenues based on tax-related revenue streams. Lamont and the state are obviously doing something right, because we have more money in the coffers than ever before.

Why can't the answer lie somewhere in the middle? Not everything has to be black and white/top and bottom only.